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Keeping Families Together

Your donation will help us protect those most vulnerable, newborns needing extra help.

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What Inspires You?

Everyone deserves access to world-class health, especially newborns requiring extra help at birth make a healthy start in life.

As the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the North San Fernando Valley, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center’s NICU is a technologically advanced unit capable of caring for the unique needs of your baby. Our NICU is a tremendous resource for premature infants, and newborns and their families, providing the specialized care they need, close to home. Our newly expanded NICU, entirely funded by philanthropy, doubles our capacity, allowing us to care for more than 300 infants a year. Our patients and their families have access to the most advanced technology. Our caregivers will be able to monitor babies’ heartbeats closely with improved cardio monitoring. The NICU also features enhanced preparation rooms for feeding and medication and a new family conference room for families to have private conversations with their care teams. Providing an enhanced more healing environment that fosters a shorter length of stay for our newborn patients is just another way we’re caring for our community.

New Therapeutic Hypothermia Treatment
This equipment uses a noninvasive process to regulate and maintain the baby’s body temperature to ensure vital organs like the brain, heart and liver continue functioning. The ability to offer this treatment at PHCMC will allow us to treat newborns who need this therapy instead of transporting them to a different facility.
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Giraffe OmniBed Incubators
The newly expanded NICU has 18 Giraffe OmniBeds, an increase from the 12 we previously had. The Giraffe OmniBed is a combination of incubator, radiant warmer and protective bed all in one. The incubator serves as a substitute womb, creating a seamless healing microenvironment for each one of our new babies, giving them a safe and warm environment to continue to develop. It allows clinicians to care for, monitor and treat newborns through a variety of procedures, while eliminating the need to remove these fragile infants from the incubator.
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Web Cameras
Our web cameras use a secure, stable, password-protected system that will allow family and friends to remotely see their newborn on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Our webcams are often fixed to the Giraffe OmniBeds, which allows parents and authorized viewers to access continuous footage of their newborn from anywhere in the world, at any hour.
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Expand NICU capacity by 50%

We’ll increase our capacity from 12 incubators to 18, and modernize our existing technology.

GE/Phillips Giraffe Omnibed Carestation

These sophisticated incubators provide a nurturing and protective environment that simulates a mother’s womb.

Caregiver Training and Education

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center caregivers are committed to providing the highest quality care possible. That promise requires periodic training courses to learn about new technology and techniques that benefit patients.
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A donation makes a difference. Here’s proof.

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A preemie is saved
Amanda Rodriguez’s pregnancy was just shy of six months when her physician at Providence Holy Cross suspected that there was more going on than just a simple UTI. Her son was immediately delivered at just 24 weeks and sent directly into the NICU where he spent nearly 3 months. Today, he’s an active and healthy toddler.
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ER nurse becomes a patient
Amber Lockhart has happily worked for years as an ER nurse at Holy Cross. But when she was rushed to the hospital’s NICU thirty-two weeks into her pregnancy she saw a whole other side of the hospital caregivers, this time from a patient’s perspective. “They were amazing,” she said.
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Welcome Baby Supports Families During COVID-19 Pandemic
Amanda enrolled in the Providence Holy Cross Welcome Baby Program at her prenatal visit as her delivery date was drawing near. Although she and her husband were excited to soon welcome their first child as new parents, they had heightened health and safety concerns for her and the baby due to the emerging pandemic.
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A labor of love
When Janet Udomratsak was admitted to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center with pregnancy complications on the Fourth of July, she had no idea the hospital would soon become her classroom as well.
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Now, more than ever, our community needs Providence Holy Cross Medical Center and compassionate neighbors like you.

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“The NICU expansion will greatly enhance how we serve our community. We will be able to ensure that more of our premature and high-risk infants remain on our campus, close to their birth mothers during the first critical 48 hours. Transferring a newborn to another hospital not only affects parent-child bonding but can also affect the healing process of the mother, while adding stress to the whole family. We are grateful that the NICU expansion will reduce transfers and keep fragile newborns onsite with their families.” Jodi L. Hein, DNP, R.N., NEA-BC Chief Nursing Officer, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

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“The selfless support from our donors in San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys is truly moving. We appreciate all that you do, and look forward to your continued investment in Holy Cross in order to have exceptional care right here in our community. On behalf of all the Providence Heroes, we thank you.”

— Michelle Koenig BarrittChief Philanthropy Officer
— Michelle Koenig Barritt

Meet The Expert

Susan Egami,

MSN, RNC-NIC, IBCLC


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Call: 818-496-4600
Address: 15031 Rinaldi St., Mission Hills, CA 91345
Email: phcfoundation@providence.org

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